CARE FOR YOUNG CHILDREN

·Teachers and environments provide resources, challenges, and support for their widening interests and problem-solving capacities.

·Opportunities for unfamiliar routines, new and self-directed challenges, co-operative ventures, and sustained projects.

·Teachers encourage sustained conversations, queries, and complex thinking, including concepts of fairness, difference and similarity.

·Opportunities to use language to explore and to direct thinking and learning tasks.

·A wide range of resources for creative expression, symbolising, and representation.

·Recognition of their developing sense of humour, which springs from new understandings and how things ‘ought’ to be.

·Challenging opportunities which keep pace with their physical co-ordination and development.

·Comprehensive transition to school programme woven into our curriculum.